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  • Usage in publication:
    • Adirondack gneiss
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Gneiss
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Adirondack uplift
Publication:

Hitchcock, C.H., 1879, Table of the geological formations of the New England states, IN Macfarlane, James, The geologist's traveling hand-book; An American geological railway guide, giving the geological formation at every railway station, with notes on interesting places on the routes, and a description of each of the formations: New York, D. Appleton and Company, p. 56.


Summary:

Adirondack gneiss included in Laurentian, Adirondack region, northeastern New York.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 14).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Adirondack gneiss
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Gneiss
    • Granite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Adirondack uplift
Publication:

Merrill, F.J.H., 1901, Geologic map of New York: New York State Museum, scale 1:319,000


Summary:

Adirondack gneiss (gneisses including granites). [Mapped over large part of Adirondack region. The block is placed beneath the Grenville blocks and according to later mapping the rocks are chiefly of igneous origin.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 11).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Adirondack gneiss
  • Modifications:
    • Not used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Adirondack uplift
Publication:

Chadwick, G.H., 1930, Studies in the New York Siluric [abs.]: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 41, no. 1, p. 80-82.


Summary:

Pg. 82. Adirondack gneiss. [See 1930 entry under Adirondack anorthosyte.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 11).


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